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Jeanine Basinger has been happily married for 45 years, so she knows a lot about how to make a marriage work. Basinger, the founder and director of the Film Studies Department at Wesleyan University in Middletown, also knows a lot about marriage movies, and what makes them work. "People in the audience are familar with marriage, whether they are married or not, so it's a problem if it's just too fake," Basinger says."If their problems are solved too early, if there is no serious problem, if they do not behave the way married people actually behave." Moviegoers' familiarity with the concept of marriage is a blessing and a curse: Audiences can relate to...

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